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Nicholas P. Callahan was a forty-year veteran of the Federal Bureau of Investigation when he retired to laudatory praise in the mid-70s as Associate Director, the second in command. Callahan began his career as a clerk and in 1939 rose to Special...

Charles Brennan supervised COINTELPRO operations as Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Brennan was a protege of William Sullivan, the architect of COINTELPRO under FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. COINTELPRO was a massive,...

The August 17, 1970 bombing murder of Omaha Patrolman Larry Minard, Sr. quickly led to a police conspiracy to withhold evidence in order to convict Nebraska leaders of the Black Panther Party for the crime. Edward Poindexter and Mondo we Langa,...

The 1970 bombing murder of Omaha Patrolman Larry Minard, Sr. landed two Black Panther leaders in prison where they are serving life sentences. Minard had been lured to his death by an anonymous 911 caller who reported a woman screaming in a vacant...

The United States underwent its second Universal Periodic Review on May 11 in Geneva, Switzerland. The UPR is a periodic examination of each nation’s compliance with human rights treaties and the topic of COINTELPRO prisoners was on the...

President Barack Obama, a former law school professor, is no doubt familiar with the Supreme Court decision Stone v. Powell, which restricted access to the federal courts by state prisoners. Obama may not have realized that Mondo we Langa, then...

Rae Ann Schmitz was a key witness in a 1971 murder trial, but nobody, including defense attorney David Herzog, was aware she contradicted the testimony of the prosecution’s chief witness. Schmitz was unaware she was an alibi witness for...

A memorial service for Marvin McClarty, Sr. was held April 23 at the Clair Memorial United Methodist Church in Omaha, Nebraska. McClarty died a week earlier of liver cancer. McClarty was a well-respected twenty-six year veteran of the Omaha Police...

The United States Human Rights Network has announced that the United States will undergo a five-year Universal Periodic Review on May 11 of its compliance with human rights treaties to which the United States is a signatory. The issue of political...

J. Edgar Hoover, the controversial director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a half-century, allowed killers in Cleveland and Omaha get away with murder in order to put so-called black militant leaders in prison. Although a matter of...

The fortieth anniversary of the Church Committee on Jan. 27 triggered a call for new Congressional hearings on America’s intelligence agencies by seventeen former committee staff members. The United States Senate created the Select Committee...

The Nebraska Supreme Court has refused to explain why it rejected a claim of innocence by Mondo we Langa, former David Rice. The court simply said “overruled” on Jan. 14, denying Mondo an explanation what was wrong with his innocence...

The suitcase bomb that killed Omaha policeman Larry Minard, Sr. on August 17, 1970, put two Black Panther leaders in prison for life. Doing hard time at the maximum-security Nebraska State Penitentiary, Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa (then David...

The Nebraska Supreme Court, which turned down Black Panther leader Mondo we Langa’s post-conviction appeal, without issuing a written decision, has been asked to reconsider the matter and make written findings. The illegal...

The Nebraska Supreme Court dismissed, without opinion, the post-conviction appeal of COINTELPRO target Mondo we Langa on Sept. 26. Mondo, former David Rice, was not given a hearing or even a written decision by the state high court. The...